Dec 06, 2008
Consumer Watchdog Praises Insurance Commissioner Poizner for Health Insurance "Rescission" Rules, Pans Schwarzenegger Administration for Failure to Regulate HMO
Without Parallel Rules In Department Of Managed Health Care, Insurers Can "Discriminate ... On the Basis of Which Agency Regulates" the Policy. |
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Dec 10, 2007
Arnold Betrays Patients As Veto Trashes His State-of-State Pledge
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Dec 09, 2007
Patients Whose Health Coverage Was Retroactively Cancelled When They Got Sick Urge Governor to Keep His 'State of State' Promise to Protect Innocent Patients
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Dec 04, 2007
Consumer Advocates Call for Governor To Make Good on His Promise to Protect Patients From Illegal Cancellations of Health Insurance
Health Care Regulators Accused in Hearing of "Glacial Pace" In Stopping Post-Claim Rescissions, Failing to Restore Coverage to Victims |
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Dec 02, 2007
Gov. Schwarzenegger Must Follow Through on Call to Ban Blue Cross From Using Doctors as Double-Agents to Dump Sick Patients
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Oct 31, 2006
Governor's Mandatory Purchase of Private Health Insurance Doesn't Add Up for the Middle-Class
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Dec 09, 2006
"Mandatory Purchase" Health Insurance Proposed by Governor Schwarzenegger & Senator Clinton Would Force 13 Million Californians to Buy Unaffordable Coverage
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Dec 05, 2006
Schwarzenegger Address to AARP Today Is False Advertising;
Gov's Plan Makes Early Retirement Unlikely, Raises Costs for Retirees |
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Dec 02, 2006
Medical Costs See Biggest Increase in More Than 15 Years As Policymakers Consider Requiring Californians to Buy Health Insurance
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Dec 02, 2006
Schwarzenegger, Núñez & Perata Must Guarantee Price & Quality of Health Coverage Before Requiring Californians to Buy
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Dec 01, 2006
Gov's Health Plan Must Provide New Rules Limiting Insurer Waste To Ensure Affordability;
Rate Reviews That Saved Homeowners Nearly $500 Million in Recent Weeks Should Apply Equally to Health Insurance, Group Says |
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Dec 01, 2006
Governor, Legislators Should Heed California Voters Who See Drug & Insurance Profits Driving Rise in Health Costs;
Poll Results Closely Track Group's Recommendations to Curb Insurers' Wasteful Practices |
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Nov 02, 2005
State HMO Regulator Agrees to New Rules & Hearings on Illegal Policy Cancellations;
FTCR Says New Rules Are Good News for Patients |
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Nov 01, 2005
Consumer Advocates Call on HMO Regulator to Release Records In Wake of Allegations that the Schwarzenegger Administration Pre-approved Merger of Top Contributor
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Nov 01, 2005
Schwarzenegger Prejudged HMO Merger Before Hearings, Received $105K from PacifiCare;
Consumer Group Calls for State Auditor to Investigate Anti-Consumer Merger and $445 Million Exec Payout |
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Dec 08, 2005
Schwarzenegger's Health Care Summit Ignores Key to Affordability: Crackdown On Health Insurer Overhead and Drug Company Profits
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Dec 06, 2005
Schwarzenegger's Drug Money Tops $1 million
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Dec 04, 2005
FTCR Petitions Garamendi & Schwarzenegger to End Illegal Blue Cross "Retro-Active" Insurance Denials, Make Public Secret Documents
Court Cases Filed In Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties |
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Dec 01, 2005
Consumer Advocates Say Schwarzenegger's Appeal to Bush to Lift Drug Importation Ban is Meaningless;
California Bulk Purchasing is the Solution |
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Dec 06, 2004
Schwarzenegger's HMO Regulator Considers Giving Industry Group Authority to Conduct Audits
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Nov 01, 2003
Schwarzenegger Called On to Protect 9 out of 10 Blue Cross Patients Who Will Pay $4 Billion Cost of WellPoint/Anthem Merger
Gov Received $140K From HMOs and Executives |
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Dec 10, 2003
Big "A" Catching Up To Dubya In Drug Money;
No Other Pol Raising As Much As Arnold |
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Dec 07, 2003
Schwarzenegger Folds to Special Interests, OKs WellPoint/Anthem Merger; Garamendi Says "No" on Patients' Behalf
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Dec 07, 2003
Patients Hold Pork Roast & Testify at Public Hearing Criticizing CEO Slated to Receive $235.2 Million in Anthem/WellPoint Merger
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Dec 06, 2003
Schwarzenegger Administration Folds to Public Pressure, Schedules Hearing
Still Refuses to Release Details of Wellpoint/Anthem Merger |
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Dec 06, 2003
Gov. Schwarzenegger Supporters Control Rx Group Fighting to Block Drug Reform;
FTCR Calls on Gov. to Return Campaign Contributions |
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Dec 06, 2003
Drug Companies Increase Lobbying by 25%, Contribute Heavily to Schwarzenegger as Legislature Debates Reform
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Dec 04, 2003
"Collectinator" Called On to Release Records Of $1.34 Billion in Uncollected Drug Rebates
FTCR submitted a Public Records Act Request for all state documents pertaining to the drug rebate program |
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Dec 04, 2003
New Analysis of 46 States and D.C. Shows California Far Below Average in Collecting Drug Rebates
"Collectinator" Failed To Collect Up To $1.3 Billion Dollars Owed By Pharmaceutical Companies – Worst in U.S. |
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Oct 31, 2002
Schwarzenegger Appoints HMO Lobbyist To Cabinet
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Oct 31, 2002
Letter to Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger. Health care reform– special interest or public interest?
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Oct 31, 2002
Opponents File Referendum to Overturn SB 2; Consumer Advocate Calls on Gov. Schwarzenegger to Support the Law and A Plan to Control Costs
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Nov 30, 1999
Schwarzenegger Gives Thanksgiving Gift To HMO That Is His 30th Largest Donor
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